Glogster EDU Premium is a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Prezi lets you bring your ideas into one space and see how they relate, helping you and your audience connect. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see details — a bit like web-based maps that have changed how we navigate through map books.
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
lets students create mind maps, diagrams and flowcharts in a very simple, straightforward way, and has lots of tutorials. No registration or account required! Students can save diagrams to their desktop
new search engine that rates each search result according to its reading level. It takes it a bit longer than other search engines to show the results of a search, but it's worth the wait
create fake 'tweets' from historical characters, characters in a novel, etc. Could be a great quick assignment! No registration or login required. Also, check out the rest of the tools on ClassTools.net, such as the countdown timer or the different mind map templates
a virtual 'corkboard' or 'sticky-note board' that is text-only. Please check it out, see the demo page; there are tons of uses for this sort of thing. Other similar sites are Wallwisher and AnswerGarden
Group Discussion: How do we provide "Above and Beyond" experiences for ALL our students. How is this 21st Century Learning?
Student Activity: Group Discussion and have students create speech inspiring others to strive to go Above and Beyond.
Technology Tools
Above and Beyond video
http://youtu.be/7KMM387HNQk
Group Discussion: How do we provide "Above and Beyond" experiences for ALL our students. How is this 21st Century Learning?
Student Activity: Group Discussion and have students create speech inspiring others to strive to go Above and Beyond.
Video: Vision of 21st Century Teachers.wmv